DETECTIVE RESIGNS FROM THE FORCE
SEQUEL TO ASSAULT ON
SEAMAN “IMPROPER CONDUCT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED” Detective William Robert Cooper has resigned from the New Zealand police force as a result of his having assaulted a seaman, Henry Morningtqn Smith, who secured £l5 damages in a civil case brought against Cooper in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court last Friday. Prior, to the Magistrate’s Court’ proceedings being instituted against the detective, who has been stationed at Wellington for many years, he was fined £2 at a private police inquiry conducted by Inspector Rawle in August for assaulting Smith in the Taranaki Street police station on July 27. At that inquiry Detective Cooper admitted having been previously fined £3 for assault. The Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. B. Mcllveney) told a representative of The Dominion yesterday that Detective Cooper had handed in his resignation on Monday, and had been discharged. Asked if he had any further statement to make, the Commissioner said he had nothing more to say, save that such improper conduct as Detective Cooper had been guilty of would not be tolerated under any circumstances in the New Zealand police force.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 10
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